Oracle Database License Audit Checklist
1. Perform a Comprehensive Oracle Environment Inventory (On‑Prem & Cloud)
- Catalog every Oracle database deployment, including production, development, testing, and disaster‑recovery environments.
- Include all infrastructure types: physical servers, virtual machines, containers, and cloud-hosted databases.
- Record the database edition (Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition) and version (e.g.11g,19c, 21c).
2. Verify License Entitlements and Agreements
- Map each deployment to its corresponding license type (NUP, Processor‑based).
- Use Oracle’s Core Factor Table to correctly calculate processor requirements.
- Review legacy contracts, existing ULAs, and any embedded licensing rights that may impact compliance.
3. Assess Feature and Option Usage
- Use automated tools/scripts to detect usage of chargeable features such as RAC, Partitioning, Advanced Compression, etc.
- Confirm that all enabled features are properly licensed or disable those not in use.
4. Evaluate Virtualization and Cloud Architectures
- Track virtual machine movement across hypervisors (e.g. VMware vSphere, Nutanix ).
- Ensure hard partitioning or affinity rules are documented and enforced where required.
- Review Oracle workloads running on public cloud IaaS platforms like AWS, Azure, or OCI to confirm licensing alignment.
5. Prepare an Accurate and Audit‑Ready Data Package
- Validate all data generated by LMS (License Management Services) scripts before sharing externally.
- Avoid running Oracle‑provided audit scripts without expert review.
- Document all licensing interpretations, configuration decisions, and control measures for audit transparency.
Note :-
We have to very careful run any script in environment before review with experts ......
